Señora Gose's Homeschool Spanish Blog (aka "Seriously, Suzanne")
Silly in Spanish Category Two (Drawing out of Context)
Method #2 to increase silliness - Out of context DRAWING! Adding ANY sort of action to your learning environment increases absorption. Drawing, doodling, coloring, or scribbling gives the hand eye coordination a workout while helping any student with performance anxiety a new focus - looking down at their hands rather than at someone's face, where they may typically look for approval. When you, the parent, leader, and instructor, join in the drawing activity, the relaxation and enjoyment grows exponentially. You're showing vulnerability, creativity, and dedication to the event. You're MODELING learning in various ways. The truth is, whatever YOU value,...
Silly in Spanish Category One (Using Opposites)
Did you know....Once we remove unnecessary boundaries during learning, the absorption increases. Memories become deeper and more poignant, relational intelligence increases, and endorphins are released. The children will sleep better tonight, and be MORE eager to learn the next time, looking for that incredible adrenaline rush when they get to see what zany idea their parent is going to bring to their educational journey today... What a JOY - Spanish is SUPER SILLY and FUN ... and then, maybe OTHER lessons become more fun too! It's true - typically, the average human can learn something (add it to longterm memory) after...
Do NOT go to a Homeschool Convention This Year
Homeschool Conventions are the last place on earth for a nice family like yours this summer. Listen to me, and stay far far away. LISTEN to this blog on my Podcast channel here.You and your children already understand that learning is a JOB, and there's only ONE location to do it. If you go a homeschool convention, you'll for sure be exposed to alternate ways and locations to not only learn, but even alternate subjects to study! There's a HUGE possibility that your children may wander around the exhibit hall full of learning and teaching resources and get really excited about...
5 Simple Tricks To LOCK in SPEEDY Spanish Learning!
In my last blog post, I gave you some methods of learning and teaching foreign language to avoid. It's not that those methods 100% don't work. It's that they aren't efficient or useful to actually being able to converse. That slow-going method creates an obstacle, causing us to believe a few different things... We're not GOOD at Spanish, or it's HARD, or it's just not worth it. So... go back, and please do avoid those methods, even though the message was a bit of a downer. So let me follow up today with five easy tricks to get super QUICK...
How *NOT* to teach Spanish
Are you using any of these methods to teach or learn Spanish? Maybe... stop. ~ Memorizing phrases via audio only One of my first phrases I painstakingly learned and memorized by audio sound only was, "El caballo salta la cerca." I guess it was to learn the S and K sounds made by the letter C. It means, "The horse jumps the fence." Though I have seen horses jump the fence multiple times since learning that phrase... I have never uttered it to anyone around me, in any language. What a waste of brain space! Of COURSE you can learn...